From: Acts of the Territorial Legislature and Acts of the Legislature, 1822-Present, Series S 222

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the case relating to teacher requirements
decided on April 9, 1956, to enlarge the language and meaning of the
compact by the States in an effort to withdraw from the States powers
reserved to them and as daily exercised by them for almost a century;

That a question of contested power has arisen; the Supreme
Court of the United States asserts, for its part, that the States did
in fact prohibit unto themselves the power to regulate labor matters,
criminal proceedings and public education and to maintain racially separate
public institutions and the State of Florida, for its part asserts that
it and its sister States have never surrendered such rights;

That these assertions upon the part of the Supreme Court
of the United States, accompanied by threats of coercion and compulsion
against the sovereign States of this Union, constitute a deliberate,
palpable, and dangerous attempt by the Court to prohibit to the States
certain rights and powers never surrendered by them;

That the Legislature of Florida asserts that whenever the
General Government attempts to engage in the deliberate, palpable and
dangerous exercise of powers not granted to it, the States who are parties
to the compact have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose for
arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their
respective limits, the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining
to them;

That failure on the part of this State thus to assert its
clear rights would be construed as acquiescence in the surrender thereof;
and that such submissive acquiescence to the seizure of one right would
in the end lead to the surrender of all rights and, and inevitably to
the consolidation of the States into one sovereignty, contrary to the
sacred compact by which this Union of States was created;

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